Engineering Women’s Attitudes and Goals in Choosing Disciplines with Above and Below Average Female Representation

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ID13026445
AutoresDina Verdín (0000-0002-6048-1104, Purdue University West Lafayette, autor de correspondencia), Andrew Godwin (0000-0002-0741-3356, Purdue University West Lafayette), Adam Kirn (0000-0001-6344-5072, University of Nevada, Reno), Lisa Benson (0000-0001-8052-9817, Clemson University), Gilles Potvin (0000-0002-8164-2309, Florida International University)
Año2018
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas44-44
Fecha de publicación2018-03-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci7030044
OpenAlexW2791087642
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas74

Women’s participation in engineering remains well below that of men at all degree levels. However, despite the low enrollment of women in engineering as a whole, some engineering disciplines report above average female enrollment. We used multiple linear regression to examine the attitudes, beliefs, career outcome expectations, and career choice of first-year female engineering students enrolled in below average, average, and above average female representation disciplines in engineering. Our work begins to understand how the socially constructed masculine cultural norms of engineering may attract women differentially into specific engineering disciplines. This study used future time perspective, psychological personality traits, grit, various measures of STEM identities, and items related to career outcome expectations as theoretical frameworks. The results of this study indicate that women who are interested in engineering disciplines with different representations of women (i.e., more or less male-dominated) have significantly different attitudes and beliefs, career goals, and career plans. This study provides information about the perceptions that women may have and attitudes that they bring with them into particular engineering pathways

Engineering education · Grit · Perception · Personality · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Representation (politics · Career Development and Diversity · Computer Science · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Engineering · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Psychology · Social Psychology